quotes about Contests
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The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
-- Al Gore -
I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
-- Alexander the Great -
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.
-- Andrew Evans -
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
-- Blaise Pascal -
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
-- Catherine Gilbert MurdockSource : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
-- D. L. HughleySource : "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", January 17, 2008.
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The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
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It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
-- Faith HunterSource : Faith Hunter (2009). “Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.207, Penguin
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The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.
-- George W. Bush -
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Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
-- Ibycus -
You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
-- Jean-Christophe Maillot -
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
-- Jefferson DavisSource : "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government".
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All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
-- Jim Rohn -
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.
-- Jimmy Piersall -
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
-- John Szarkowski -
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
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Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
-- Leo Burnett -
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.
-- Ryan Sheckler -
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.
-- Vladimir FranzSource : "Despite Face Tattoo Vladimir Franz Is Presidential Contender" by Dragon Jovanovic and Jilian Fama, abcnews.go.com. January 10, 2013.
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You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
-- William Devane -
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
-- William Prescott -
Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.
-- Matt Serra -
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There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
-- Dean Smith